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O. VON ZELEWSKY LATHE Filed May 29, 1944 3 Sheets-Sheet I5 Y 5 y w ME ma .um zown WM Patented Mar. 9, 1948 LATHE Ottomar von Zelewsky,

N euhausen-on-the- Rheinfall, Switzerland, assignor to Aktiengesellschaft der Eisenund Stahlwerke vorm. Georg Fischer, Schaffhausen, a Swiss corporation Application May 29, 1944, Serial No. 537,771 In Switzerland May 15, 1943 Section 1, Public Law 690, August 8, 1946 Patent expires May 15, 1963 6 Claims.

of not more than 60 to the rotary axis. Single vertical steps can be profiled on a blank with this type of lathe when the tool slide and the hydraulic feed device are made to work at an acute angle to the rotary axis. Where the die to be copied possesses several steps rising and falling vertically, the profiling work must be carried out in two stages, the tool slide placed obliquely to the right profiling the rising steps in the flrst longitudinal feed, and the falling steps being copied during the return of the ycross slide, placed obliquely to the left. Another known system is that of working with two cross slides, two tool slides andtwo hydraulic feed devices simultaneously on the same piece from two dies.' when various right-angled steps can be profiled simultaneously by swivelling the tool slide. Doubling the cross slide, tool slide and hydraulic feed device, however, involves the construction of a heavy and expensive machine tool.

As against this, the present invention is Constructively a far more rational proposition, It fulfils the same purpose, viz. the proling of rising and falling right-angled steps on a blank, by the aflxing of two tools to the tool slide, said tools being operative in opposite directions andadjusted by means of a hydraulic feed device functioning in the two operative directions of the tools in such a manner that the blank is profiled edges respectively of the prototype serving as adouble die.

Some examples incorporating the present in-V vention are given in the enclosed drawings, which show:

Fig. 1 front view of a rst model,

Fig. 2 the same in vertical section II-II,

Fig. 3 front view of a second model,

Fig. 4 lathe 3 in vertical section IV-IV,

Figs. 5 and 6 each a section throu-gh the control member of the hydraulic feed device,

Fig, '7 front view of a further control member, and

Fig. 8 the same in section.

In Figs. 1 and 2 the machine stand is marked I, the cross slide 2, and the obliquely placed tool slide 3. The tool slide 3 moves in a guide plate d which is mounted in the cross slide 2 and can be swivelled round pivot 5, Cross slide 2 is formed as an oil container in which forcing pump B for the hydraulic feed is placed. Pressure conduit 1 leads to pivot 5 and through it to section 8 of the pressure conduit opening into plunger 9 which controls the lift and fall of tool slide 3. From plunger 9 the pressure medium enters the lower in two successive stages of work after mutually pressure chamber I0 and thence passes conduit II to pressure reducing valve t2. The latter keeps the pressure in the lower pressure chamber IIJ of plunger 9 at an adjustable, constant value. In normal service the oil iiows from pressure reducing valve i2 into upper pressure chamber I3 of plunger 9, and simultaneously through conduit I4 to control member I5. Control member I5 is operated by a feeler lever I B which can be swivelled round axle Il, Spring I8 presses control member I5 downwards and thereby causes control edge I9 to contact control member I5. On the side opposite the control mem- -ber of feeler lever I6 there is a plunger 20 with spring 2I and regulating screw 22. Spring 2| is stronger than spring I8 but can be relieved by the regulating screw 22 to such an extent that only spring IB is operative. Tool 23 works blank 25 from die 21; tool 26 works from die 24. Figs. 1 and 2 show a hydraulic feed device whose control member I5 is fitted with a, feeler I6 of lozenge-shaped cross-section with the two edges cutting towards the directions of feed and. successively passing along two mutually complementary two mutually complementary dies.

dies 24 and 21 placed opposite each other. 'Ihe mode of operation is as follows:

At the commencement oi the proling work regulating screw 22 is turned back, spring 2| 'is completely relieved, and only spring I8 acts upon control member |5. Control edge |9 is closed and the hydraulic pressure in pressurel chamber I3 rises. Tool slide 3 is lifted till feeler I6 touches die 21. The movement of feeler I6 on die 21 displaces control member |5 against the pressure of spring I8 and opens control edge I9 so far that all the liquid `forced by pump 6 can escape through the control member, thus setting height of tool slide 3 in accordance with die 21. Thereupon longitudinal feed of the lathe is switched on andcauses feeler I6 to glide along die 21. According to its prole, die 21 alters the opening in control edge I9 and thus controls the proling of the blank 25. After this rst phase the longiltudinal feed is switched of! and the hydraulic feed device is reversed onto the second die 24.

This is done by tightening regulating screw 22.

The stronger spring 2| now overcomes the effect of spring I8 .and presses control member I5 upwards till control edge I9 opens and the hydraulic pressure falls. Tool slide 3 is lowered accordingly till feeler I6 contacts die 24 as indicated in Fig. 2. Tool 26 has thus reached the end of its stroke and the return movement of the longitudinal feed in'itiates the second stage of the proling work from die 24. At the end of the return stroke the longitudinal feed is switched off and the proling work is completed. The essential difference in hydraulic feed is that when the profiling work is done from die 24 spring 2| governs the opening of control member I5, while die 24 controls the closing of control edge I9, that is, contrary to the first stage of the profiling work from die 21. With hand wheel 28 control merri-v ber I5 with feeler lever I6 can be moved to allow exact adjustment of tools 23 and 26. By means of a handle 30 tted to slide 29 feeler I6 can be arbitrarily controlled by a swivelling arm 3|, if manual intervention in the proiiling work should prove necessary. turn conduit of the pressure medium from control member |5 and from pressure reducing valve I2.

Figs. 3 and 4 show an example incorporating the present invention for internal profiling. For this purpose the tool slide carries a toolhead, placed parallel to the axis of the blank, to which are axed two tools operative in opposite directions so the blank can be internally p roled from Machine stand 48 carries the longitudinally movable slide 4| together with guide plate 51, which can be swivelled round a pivot 42, of tool slide 4'3. The hydraulic feed device here consists of vplunger 44, pressure reducing valve 45 and control member 46. Forcing pump, conduits and feeler 41 work in exactly the same way as in Examples ,1 and 2. Dies 48 and 49 affixed to machine stand 48 t0- gether give the complete prole to be copied; The tool slide 43 carries the tool head 5I) with the two turning tools 5| and 52, Blank 53, held by a chuck 54, is driven by motor 55. By means of a hand lever 56 feeler 41 can be adjusted arbitrarily. The dotted lines with arrow in Fig, 3 indicate how tools 5| and 52 enter and work blank 53. Normally tool 5| will begin the profiling work from die 49 in the stroke of the longitudinal` feed to the right, turning tool 52 nishing the work from die 48 in thev return stroke.

The change-over of the hydraulic feed device Number 32 designates the re or the control member from one die to the other can also be eiected in the manner shown in Figs. 5 and 6. Control member 60 is pushed downwards by spring 6I. A p1unger 63 with a considerably stronger spring 64, however, presses on feeler 62 supported by the pivot member 84 in the opposite direction. In Fig. 5 the feeler works from die 66 because the action of spring 64 overcomes that of spring 6I, thus pushing control member 68 upwards till feeler 62 begins the p roling work from die 66. To make the feed device work from die spring 64' must be eliminated by a cam 61 operatedvby lever arm 85. Figure 5 shows the cam 61 in turned out position so that the spring 64 can operate. In this position, the operation occurs toward the die 66. Figure 6 shows the position of the lever arm 85 in the opposite position. where the feeler 62 operates rotatingly around the axis 84 in the direction toward the die 65. Fig 6 shows cam 61 in its operative position with lever arm 85 turned downward and feeler 62 in Contact with die 65. Instead of cam 61 another element can be used to the same effect, e. g., a twin lever or a setting screw.

Figs. '1 and 8 show a control member 10 iltted with a fork-shaped feeler 1| whose upper and lower edges, 12 and 14 respectively, pass along the upper and lower edges, 13 and 15 respectively, of the prototype 16 serving as a double die. The upper spring 11 acts in conjunction with control member 10 if edge 14 is to do the proling work. Together with plunger 80 the lower spring 18, which can be eliminated by cam 19 operated by lever arm 86, acts upon feeler 1| and control member 18 when the upper edge 12 of feeler 1| is copying. Fig. 8 shows cam 19 disengaged so that the stronger spring 18 overcomes the action of the upper, weaker spring 11. The cam 19 is actuated by the lever arm 86. Of course the proiiling device as shown in Figs. '1 and 8 can only be workedon prototypes of limited diameter, but then it has the advantage that the construction of special dies can' be dispensed with.

I claim:

1. In a machin-e tool for the turning of work, having a machine frame carrying a horizontal bed, a horizontal slide slidably arranged to travel on said bed iii-parallelism with the rotational axis of said work, a plate carried by said slide, a hydraulically operated tool carrying member obliquely slidable on said plate, an upper tool and a lower tool carried by said member, an upper die and a lower die arranged on the bed in vertically spaced relation to each other, a pivotally mounted feeler movable with the tool carrying member for engaging one of the dies when the horizontal slide is slid in one direction during the cutting operation of one of the tools and for engaging the oppositely disposed die when said slide is slid in the opposite direction during the cutting operation of the other of said tools and means operated by said feeler for controlling said cutting operations.

2. In a machine tool for the turning of work, having a machine frame carrying a horizontal bed, a horizontal slide slidably arranged to travel on said bed in parallelism with the rotational axis of said work, a plate carried by said slide, a hydraulically operated tool carrying member obliquely slidable on saidl plate, an upper tool and a lower tool carried by said member, an upper die and a lower die arranged on the bed in vertically spaced relation to each other, a pivotally mounted feeler movable with the tool carrying members in operative engagement with the feeler. l

3. A device according to claim 2, wherein the spring pressure on one of the control members is greater than the spring pressure on the other of said members and wherein the said greater pressure may be entirely relieved for the purpose speciled.

4. A device according to claim 1 wherein the feeler has a die engaging portion having a quadrilateral lozenge shape in cross section to provide sharp line edge engagement between the said dies and feeler.

5. A device according to claim 2 together with manually operated means for moving the control means and feeler to permit of adjustment of the tools with respect to the work.

6. A device according to claim 1 wherein the dies comprise the opposite surfaces of a proto- 6 typo of the work to be produced, and wherein the feeler is provided with a pair 'of oppositely disposed edges for alternately contacting said opposite prototype surfaces.

' OTI'OMAR von ZELEWBKY.

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